Chapter 181 People in this era are used to being poor and are also afraid of being poor.
"No, brother-in-law! I'm not short now, so just take me there."
Haha, Zhang Yu looked Meng Guo up and down, he was not even taller than his height.
"The problem is, I took you there, and if your parents ask about it, how can I explain it?"
"Have you considered what I will do? If I really want to take you, your sister will not eat me."
I really can’t agree to this. It’s really dangerous to go into the mountains after heavy snowfall.
It's not just that the road surface is slippery, some places don't look very deep, and once you step in, not even gods can save you.
Meng Guo is the only child of the old Yuan family. If something goes wrong, Zhang Yu can't explain it even if he has thousands of mouths!
"Brother-in-law, you are so boring!"
Meng Guo was very depressed, but he didn’t expect that Zhang Yu would not let go no matter what.
Zhang Yu didn't want to make Meng Guo feel that there was no hope at all. The mountains were blocked by heavy snow and he couldn't go. Can't he go now?
"Brother, my brother-in-law didn't say not to take you into the mountains. Didn't I say that? I will take you into the mountains for a walk after dinner."
"But let's make an agreement first. Everything must be obeyed by me, do you hear me?"
"Hahaha, Chengchengcheng, I will listen to you."
When Meng Guo heard what Zhang Yu said, he immediately became happy.
Zhang Yu shook his head speechlessly, and took Mengguo to take the things on the car beam into the kitchen.
Bring the toffee pastries and stuff into the house.
"Mom, please try the pastry to see if it tastes good."
"This is a limited supply from the supply and marketing cooperative. Thanks to our early arrival, Mengyi's classmate works in the supply and marketing cooperative, so we bought it."
Zhang Yu opened the parchment paper and told Zhang's mother how rare the cakes were.
Zhang Ma didn’t want to eat it as soon as she heard it. Once she heard that it was limited supply, she knew that this stuff was not cheap.
"Ah! This must cost a lot of money, no, no, no, you can take it back to Mengyi to eat."
"Meng Yi is pregnant now, so she has to eat something good."
There is no reason to take it back. Mengyi specially begged her classmates to buy it, just to honor the elderly.
"Oh, mother, we bought this specially to honor you. I want to eat it, and we will buy it ourselves."
It’s not that Zhang Ma doesn’t want to eat it, her mouth keeps salivating when she smells it.
But thinking about it, the supply of this pastry is limited, and these children have probably never tasted it.
I just wanted to give it to the children, so I thought about it and found an excuse.
"Daughter, I can't get used to eating such delicate things, you'd better take them back!"
Mengyi didn't know how to persuade her, so she quickly gave Zhang Yu a wink.
Zhang Yu saw the stalemate between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's family, so he had no choice but to speak.
"Mom, please don't give in. We bought it just for you to eat. There's no reason to take it back."
"Just because of this stutter, Mengyi still owes me a favor. If you don't eat, Mengyi will be so sad!"
Looking at the few pastries on the table, Zhang’s mother felt particularly sorry for the children.
For this stuttering, I still owe a favor, and favors are hard to repay.
Looking at the whole room, Zhang's mother couldn't bear to eat. With four children watching, Zhang's mother couldn't eat.
"Ah! Then, why don't you wait until your father and brother come back and eat together?"
Zhang Yu heard what my mother said and knew that I accepted these pastries.
"Okay, you can wait until my father comes back. When will they come back?"
Zhang Yu glanced at his watch and found that it was almost eleven o'clock.
"I'll be back at noon. I'll have dinner at noon. After dinner, I'll go to the brigade for a meeting."
Zhang Ma estimated the time and said.
Zhang Yu doesn’t understand, what can be done in the same village?
Meetings cannot solve the problem of scarcity of resources, so what is the use of holding these meetings?
"We're still having a meeting. Why is it taking so long?"
Zhang Ma went to listen for a few days, but she didn’t hear anything, so she just heard a little bit.
"Oh, there are so many things. As a woman, how can I understand these things?"
"Anyway, the leaders in the village now require every household to be present."
"A lot of people go there, and it's like listening to a book from heaven. There are some rules and regulations, which makes your head hurt."
Okay, why did this topic come back again? Zhang Yu and Mengyi didn’t want to get involved in these things, so they had to find an excuse.
"Mom, why don't I go cook first. I'll wait for dad and brother to come back later. It's time for dinner."
"Okay, let me do it for you!"
As Zhang Ma said this, she was about to get up. Mengyi quickly grabbed Zhang Ma.
"Mom, please don't go. Stay here and chat with me. I'll ask Meng Guo and Meng Xue to help Zhang Yu."
Seeing that the two children were not very old, Zhang Ma felt a little sorry for the guests who came to visit for business.
"Ah! Can these two kids do it? How about I go?"
Meng Guo hurriedly came out to appease Zhang Ma.
"Auntie, we can do it. We have been helping my brother-in-law cook when we were at home. It will be no problem."
Zhang Yu also took over Meng Guo’s words at the right time.
"Mom, Mengyi is right. You can just sit here and wait for your meal. Lunch will be for the three of us."
"Leaving the dreamland, Mengxue."
"Hey! Brother-in-law is here."
Mengxue is actually here to make soy sauce, Zhang Yu and Meng Guo are the main forces.
Meng Guo led Meng Xue to wash and choose vegetables, while Zhang Yu rummaged through the cabinets and prepared all the ingredients, seasonings and so on.
Once you look at these things, you can tell that since Zhang Yu returned to the city, these things have not been touched.
Even the lard Zhang Yu cooked last year still has more than half a can.
People these days are used to being poor, and they are also afraid of poverty. Whenever they have good things, they hide them away. Except for taking them out during the holidays to satisfy their cravings, they are not seen at all at ordinary times. They put them in a place where others can't find them. But the problem is that after a long time, you put it away and forget it. Especially for people of Zhang’s parents’ age who have to be busy with a lot of things every day, it is easy to forget all the things they have hidden.
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What’s more, I’m reluctant to throw away anything that’s broken, especially white flour. If white flour is left out for a long time, it will attract some small bugs.
Not only the white flour, but also the large vats containing grains will be visited by many insects over time.
In rural areas, it is often seen that a layer of grain is spread out in the courtyard of some homes for drying.
It can be exposed to the sun many times throughout the year, but even though it is exposed to the sun many times, the grains will not shed much.
As time went by, those bugs visited more, or new grains came down, so farmers took these old grains and ground them on millstones in the village, ground them into powder, and then steamed pancakes and steamed buns.<
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As long as you are a child in rural areas, the millstone is familiar to you. You have experienced it to some extent when you were a child.
Zhang Yu remembers that when he was a child, there were too many steamed pancakes and steamed buns for a while, and the family couldn't finish them for a long time. As time went by, the pancakes and steamed buns gradually grew hairy.
Zhang's parents didn't mind it at all. They scraped off the white hair bit by bit, steamed it on the stove, and ate it.